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Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Gerstacker was born in Hamburg, Germany on May 10, 1816. He came to New York in 1837 and set out for West traveling by foot to Arkansas. And he spent three months in 1838 hunting on the Little Red River and working as fireman on a steamboat on the Arkansas River . He was a nineteenth-century author who wrote about his observations and social conditions.

Description

The pages of this work records fascinating vignettes of life in Arkansas and numerous tales of hunting expeditions.

Physical Description

396 pages, plates, 7.5" x 5"

Subjects

Hunting; Fishing; Travel;

Staff Comments

Frederick Gerstaecker wrote popular travel and adventure stories. He provided interesting glimpses of Arkansas pioneer life in the early years of statehood. -Sheila Bevill

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